Mentorship and Tragedy: How One Fatal 1995 Accident Shaped Safety and Leadership in the Ridgewood DPW
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Keeping the Memory Alive: The 1995 Accident That Changed Ridgewood’s DPW
Ridgewood NJ, thirty years ago, on November 7, 1995, the Village of Ridgewood lost one of its own in a tragic on-duty accident. Sanitation worker Ronald Fisher, 37, a Paterson resident who had worked for the Department of Public Works (DPW) for just two years, was killed while collecting trash on Godwin Avenue when a driver, blinded by sun glare, rammed into the sanitation truck.
